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Autore |
Ammons Elizabeth |
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Titolo |
Brave new words [[electronic resource] ] : how literature will save the planet / / Elizabeth Ammons |
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Iowa City, : University of Iowa Press, 2010 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (214 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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American literature - History and criticism - Theory, etc |
Social change - Philosophy |
Humanism - Social aspects |
Social problems in literature |
Social justice in literature |
Humanism in literature |
Literature and morals |
Literature and society |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Postmodern fundamentalism -- What David Walker and Harriet Beecher Stowe still have to teach us -- The multicultural imperative -- Rising waters -- Jesus, Marx, and the future of the planet. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Brave New Words challenges present and future literary scholars and teachers to look beyond mere literary critique toward the concrete issue of social change and how to achieve it. Calling for a profound realignment of thought and spirit in the service of positive social change, Ammons argues for the continued importance of multiculturalism in the twenty-first century despite attacks on the concept from both right and left. Concentrating on activist U.S. writers-from ecocritics to feminists to those dedicated to exposing race and class biases, from Jim Wallis and Cornel West to Winona LaDuk |
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